The doomed city! Chicago during an appalling ordeal! : the fire demon's carnival : the conflagrations in the West, South and North divisions : graphic sketches from the scene of the disaster . through the streets, and still the flamesblazed and crackled among the timbers of fast consuming dwellings and shops alongJackson street, and north of that street on the West Side. The crowds in the streets, inthe eastern part of the city, were every moment growing larger; the noise was increas-ing. It was now fully evident that the fixe engines could do nothing to resist the onwardmarch of the flames. B
The doomed city! Chicago during an appalling ordeal! : the fire demon's carnival : the conflagrations in the West, South and North divisions : graphic sketches from the scene of the disaster . through the streets, and still the flamesblazed and crackled among the timbers of fast consuming dwellings and shops alongJackson street, and north of that street on the West Side. The crowds in the streets, inthe eastern part of the city, were every moment growing larger; the noise was increas-ing. It was now fully evident that the fixe engines could do nothing to resist the onwardmarch of the flames. By this time, nearly the entire population of the city had been aroused, and the streetsfor a mile or two surrounding the scene of the disaster were thronged with excited, sway-ing humanity, and with all descriptions of vehicles, pressed into the service for the hastyremoval of household goods and personal effects. Every street resembled a second-handfurniture store, goods of all desccriptions being loaded and unloaded here, there, every-where, that promised refuge, in promiscous confusion. Invalids and cripples were car- ^(xvJERc^e, MANUFACTURERS OF Improved Agraffe SQUARE AND UPRIGHT. ; Znstruzxients OF ^L3L. iSi nwmmM^¥mw§ Mm^ T#pfcf f 270 aiid 614 Michigan Avenue. FORMERLY AT No. 69 WASHINGTON STREET, (Crosby Opera House.)0HI0J^C3-0. THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION. 11 ried away on improvised ambulances; aged women and helpless infants were hastilyborne to places of temporary or permanent safety; people who were utterly] overcomewith excitement and fatigue were seen sleeping on lounges,, trunks and tables, in themidst of the crowds that were surging with emotion; empty houses were forcibly broken-open and taken possession of by houseless wanderers, made desperate by the awful sur-roimdings, in some instances, as many as five families tumbling into the same bxiilding. ?^ THE FIRE CROSSES THE RIYER. It was now a little after 11 oclock. The roaring furnace a
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